Movie
2003
Good Bye, Lenin! is a 2003 German tragicomedy film, directed by Wolfgang Becker. The cast includes Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, and Maria Simon. The story follows a family in East Germany; the mother is dedicated to the socialist cause and falls into a coma in October 1989, shortly before the Peaceful Revolution in November. When she awakens eight months later in June 1990, her son attempts to…
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People’s tendency to see the past through rosy glasses can manifest itself in various forms, some of which might seem incomprehensible to those born later or living in different places. A common example is the notion, widely held among large sections of former Communist countries in Eastern Europe, that the old system wasn’t as bad as official post-Communist truths or Cold War propaganda might suggest and that it wa…More
Goodbye Lenin! (2003) Christiane Kerner experiences an infarction shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and falls into a coma that lasts for eight months. Years earlier, her husband escapes to western Germany after which Christiane ends up in hospital and fills her emotional cavity with activism for her beloved country she believes in. After waking up from a coma, doctors say her condition is not stable and an…More
